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Personal Investment Pain Point Sparks Idea for Fast-Growing Wealth Tech Firm Goodfin
Anna Joo Fee had a problem. The Wall Street lawyer was so busy in her job that managing her wealth adequately was difficult. Her options were limited, however. Institutions wanted the capital that high earners could offer, but were not best placed to serve the market. And she wasn’t confident in her own knowledge to…
Scaling the Unstructured: 10 Leaders in Intelligent Data Processing
Huge swaths of critical financial information, from private credit agreements and ESG disclosures to complex tax documentation, is locked in unstructured formats such as digital documents and PDFs. The manual bottleneck this creates for the middle and back office eats into valuable resources. A key means to achieving this, Intelligent Data Processing (IDP), represent a…
Introducing Market & Alt Data Insight: Advancing the Industrialisation of Data in Financial Markets
Financial markets are entering a new phase in the evolution of data. Data has always underpinned trading and investment workflows. What has changed is the scale, diversity and strategic management of that data across the enterprise. Traditional market data, alternative signals, derived datasets and AI-generated features now sit on the same operational continuum. The strategic…
The Quest for Better Data Management Through Trusted Data Products
Quest Software has built its reputation on protecting digital identities, assisting companies’ data migrations within the Microsoft ecosystem. But the Austin, Texas-based firm also has a data management business that has been addressing both the database and metadata management ecosystems. As artificial intelligence begins to take a dominant role in data management and among financial…
Beyond the Pilot: Building Infrastructure for the Agentic Era
By David Sewell, Chief Technology Officer, Synechron. The fraud transaction takes milliseconds to clear. In that window, an agentic system has already queried three databases, cross-referenced two watchlists, and pinged the identity verification layer. It works – in the demo. Then the auditor asks where the decision log is, and nobody can find it, because…
NeoXam Sets Sights on Narrowing Private Data Gap Between GPs and LPs
As demand for private markets data accelerates, asset allocators are finding themselves having to play digital catch up with their investor counterparts. General partners (GPs), who manage private funds and allocate capital invested by limited partners (LPs) have found themselves technologically behind the curve as institutional investors plough into the once-niche markets. But because LPs are…
As Finance Sector Workers Embrace AI, Study Warns ‘Be Careful What You Wish For’
The potential real-world impacts of hastily deployed artificial intelligence rollouts have been highlighted in new reports that underscore the need for better-quality data and greater literacy in the technology. Financial firms that don’t invest in creating greater workforce awareness of how AI tools can be used are at risk not only of failing to optimise…
CGS Focuses on Hard-Won Privates Expertise Amid Buzz of Startups
CUSIP Global Services is leveraging its history of servicing syndicated loans, asset-backed securities, options, derivatives and other complex asset classes as it expands into the growing private credit and alternatives space. The Norwalk, Connecticut-headquartered provider of issuer and asset identifiers is working closely with financial digital platform FactSet, the Loan Syndication and Trading Association (LSTA)…
Softwire QnA: Turning Great Ideas into Data Solutions for Institutions
UK-based Softwire offers its financial institution clients expertise in leveraging data to achieve their operational objectives. Data Management Insight spoke to Sean Judge, Softwire Client Director FS&I to find out more about the company. Data Management Insight: Hello Sean. Can you tell us when and how was Softwire created and how does it serve financial institutions? Sean Judge: Softwire…
Defensibility: The New Watchword for Data Management
George Tziahanas, VP of Compliance at Archive360. Regulated enterprises are discovering that the hardest part of scaling new technology such as AI isn’t adoption; it’s proving those technologies are properly controlled. For financial institutions in particular – including banks, asset managers, insurers, and capital markets firms – this challenge is intensified by long-standing regulatory expectations…